Improvement in shifting buggy-tops



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICES IMPROVEMENT IN SHIFTING BUGGY-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 55,690, dated June 19, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that l, S. S. MEILY, of Lebanon, in the county ot` Lebanon and State ot' Pennsylvania, haveinvented anew and useful Improvement in Shifting Buggy-Tops; land I do hereby declare that the following' is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part ot' this specification, in which- Figure 1 is atop view of the rails and inner seat ot' a shifting top removed from the seat proper. Fig. 2 is a top view of the seat, which is adapted for receiving the shifting top. Fig. 3 shows the shifting top applied to the seat. Fig. 4 isa vertical section, showing the manner of securing the shifting top to its seat. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section through the seat and its top.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corre* spending parts in the several tigures.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and efficient means for securing a bnggy-top and the rails thereof to the seat, so that when desired the top can be removed, said means consisting in having the rails firmly and'permanently secured to a secondary seat, which is adapted to lit on top ofthe main seat, and which is provided with turubuttons that pass through the main seat and connect the secondary and main seats firmly together, as will be hereinafter described.

'lo enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the seat of a wagon or bugg which is constructed with inclined back A' and inclined side pieces, A2, and also with a front strip, a, having its inner edge beveled, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. I also make two oblong slots, b b, through the seat A, and face them on the bottom side of this seat with metal plates c.

Thus constructed, the seat A is adapted for receiving a cushion and keeping the same in place when a no-top seat is required. It is also adapted for receiving upon it a board, B, which forms a secondary seat, and which has its edges beveled, so as to fit snugly within the inclined sides ofthe main seat A, as shown in Figs. 3, et, and 5.

The secondary seat B has the rail C and its back permanently secured to it, as shown in l, 3, 4, and 5, which rail is adapted for receiving the folding top in the usual manner of securing folding tops to the seat-rails. By this arrangement it will be seen that the rail C is not permanently secured to the main seat A; but that it is permanently secured to a secondary seat, which is adapted to tit upon the main seat and to he iirmly secured thereon. 1

My invention consists in providing the secondary seat B with two Hat-head turning buttons, g g, having screwstems /L h formed on them, which stems pass from the bottom upward through seat-piece B, and are tapped into liXed platesjj, as shown in Fig. 4L. The stems or necks ot' these bntton-heads g g are ot' sufijcient length to allow ot' their passing through the oblong slots which are through the seat A, as above described, when the buttons are turned in a direction corresponding to thel length of these slots.

When the seat B is placed upon the main seat the buttons g g will project from the bottom side ofthe same, so that they can be turned at right angles to the length ot' their respective slots b b, and thus be made to tirmly hold the top t0 the seat A. By having screwthreads cut on the stemsot' the turn-buttons and applying these screws to nuts or plates, as above stated, theact ot' turning the buttons at right angles to their slots will draw the top down iirmly into its place and hold it upon the seat A, so as to prevent it from working loose by thejarring motion ot' the wagon.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

lhe application ot' turnbuttons g g, which are constructed with screw-stems, to the seeondary seat B and main seat A, these two seats being constructed and fitted together substantially as described.

S. S. MEILY.

Witnesses J. H. BoL'rz, J. M. MEILY. 

